Word: strangler
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...first victim of The Boston Strangler has fallen. Ten equally obscene murders later, the community is hysterical but the cops are still as empty-handed as they are empty-headed. Their few scraps of fact have only served to compound the confusion. What kind of man would violate women with wine bottles and brooms? How could he gain entrance to so many apartments without using burglar tools? How can he murder with such blind, mindless ferocity and still leave no usable clues...
...Lately his TV talk show was dropped, a New Jersey judge dismissed him as defense attorney in a murder trial because of "grossly unethical conduct," and filming of The Sam Sheppard Story, in which Bailey was to have played himself, was postponed. Now Albert DeSalvo, the self-proclaimed Boston Strangler, has replaced Bailey with a lawyer who was admitted to the Massachusetts bar less than a year ago. Shrugs the Great Defender: "If somebody else wants to take a crack at it, good luck to him, but Albert can't 'hire' anybody because he's bankrupt...
...theory is not too far from the mark, but it elicits furious denials from Steiger, who keeps taunting his pursuer by phone, hanging up before the calls can be traced. Meanwhile, victim after victim is fingered by the Manhattan strangler, who blithely pops into new personae as easily as most men change ties. His disguises range from the Irish priest to a German plumber to a homosexual hairdresser. He even plays a prostitute in drag and throws in an imitation of W. C. Fields on the brink of madness. But the killer's ego is even more monumental than...
...hear about the sex strangler on the radio? Some guy breaks into a girl's apartment, strangles her with her own stocking, and then I guess he balls her after she's dead...
...being expended largely on "adult" themes-which means, of course, lots of sex. But more than nudity and frankness is involved. A proliferation of new techniques-multiscreen, three-dimensional, the 360° projection of Expo 67-are already beginning to find their way into Hollywood productions. The Boston Strangler is being shot with multiple images. One scene shows at the left an elderly woman watching TV; at bottom center, a detective interviews a witness; on the right, the strangler drives his car slowly through the streets to the elderly woman's house. Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation...